Environmental Conservation 697DL - ST-Sustainable Building

This course will introduce primary aspects of sustainable building and smart growth certification systems (SBSG) such as the WELL Standard, the Living Building Challenge, Passivhaus and LEED for Neighborhood Development, Cities and Communities. Through instructor-led, individual and collaborative exercises, discover the core concepts and standards related to high performance building systems and interact with front-line practitioners and learn from case-study examples of high-performance buildings. Structured assignments provide the opportunity to grasp real-world challenges and impacts, and to understand the dramatic increase in momentum, scale and complexity of advanced, holistic performance standards during the last 20 years since the first high certification programs were introduced.

Open to Graduate students only. Students can attend this course in Amherst (a few on-location meetings (ODB 162) or in Newton (in-person), or online as a UWW student. Optional hands-on field trips will also be offered.